NASA - it is not what you know...

NASAwatch has more on the ongoing affairs at NASA PAO

Short version: NASA AA for public affairs and most (all?) of the top PAO officers are political appointees with no experience in science or space science, but "reliable".

Deutsch's replacement is straight from the Coalition Provisional Authority public affair's office in Iraq.

Good news is al Jazeera carries decent science news coverage.


On a side note: sounds like Dilbert is working at JPL now, at least they'll be safe...